Genevieve “Gennie” Pilarski quietly passed away in her nursing home room one September day in 1998 at the age of 79. Few noticed or cared as she had been a prisoner of Illinois state mental institutions for over 50 years. Gennie’s parents had her committed to Manteno State Hospital in 1944 when she was only […]
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